Ciro Provencio Semmler

Ciro Provencio Semmler (14 April 1915-22 March 1981) was a General of the Bolivian Army.

Biography
Ciro Provencio Semmler was born on 14 April 1915 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia to a father of Spanish descent and a mother whose family had immigrated to Bolivia from Germany in the 1850s. Provencio joined the Bolivian Army and was trained at the School of the Americas, and he became a Colonel in the Bolivian Army. He was one of the military officers that supported the 1952 Bolivian coup d'etat, but he would later align with the far right faction of the army. Provencio would serve under Hugo Banzer as one of his lieutenants, and he assisted his rise to power as military dictator of Bolivia. He later forged connections to some narcotraffickers in order to assist his own plans for taking power in Bolivia, and he aided the 1980 Cocaine Coup by Luis Garcia Meza Tejada. However, in 1981 he was one of the men that Garcia Meza had executed by his paramilitiary forces due to the threat that he posed to him.